A prison sentence simply does not end once the prison gates are left behind. James Kilgore’s informative book, Understanding Mass Incarceration presents a well structured and balanced text, which provides a lucid perspective of the growing epidemic of mass incarceration across the United States. Among the many issues Kilgore highlights, the abandonment and ineffectiveness revolving around rehabilitation policies and efforts are of the many significant factors that have greatly contributed to the total age of mass recidivism. For many people, a life of uncertainty and vulnerability will begin to unfold the second they step out of the prison gates. Today, it is quite evident that ex-offenders released from prison will face countless obstacles
